PSYC-1105EL Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.3: Pearson Education, Emo, Positive Psychology
19 Mar 2017
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Coping: refers to the processes used to manage demands, stress, and conflict. Positive psychology: uses scientific methods to study human strengths and potential. Research in this area has identified numerous adaptive and constructive ways in which people cope with problems. They have found that focusing on positive emotions is one of the best ways to cope. Broaden-and-build theory: positive emotions allow people to broaden their thought processes and to build new intellectual, social, and physical resources. Optimism: the tendency to have a favourable, constructive view on situations and to expect positive outcomes. Pessimists: tend to have a negative perception of life and expect negative outcomes. Pessimistic explanatory style: which is the tendency to interpret and explain negative events as internally based (such as being due to that person rather than to an external situation) and as a constant, stable quality.
